Like A Window opening onto a Blank Wall ; the Letters of a Dublin Housewife to Leonard Woolf. : Annual conference of the Professional Association of Sociologists in IrelandThis paper consider s the letters of Nancy Nolan to Leonard Woolf, publisher, political activist and husband to Virginia Woolf. A fan of Virginia Woolfs essays and books, she began a long term correspondence with Leonard Woolf long after Virginia died. The correspondence is archived as fan mail . This paper suggests that the contents of these letters could be considered as partly fan-mail but are an intimate insight into the daily life of a Dublin based housewife in the decades after World War 2. Nancy Nolan was ambitious for her children, managed family relationships and economies while creating a life of her own in and through books. In writing to Woolf, the domestic and the literary are counter posed.

Anne Byrne

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    Original languageEnglish (Ireland)
    Publication statusPublished - 1 Jan 2012
    EventSociological Association of Ireland, 39th Annual Conference. 2012 -
    Duration: 12 May 2012 → …

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    ConferenceSociological Association of Ireland, 39th Annual Conference. 2012
    Period12/05/12 → …

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